New Jersey Uber Driver released For Free Two Months Ago On Drug Charges Arrested Again For The Same

WANAQUE, New Jersey — A Garfield man who claimed to be an Uber driver was found slumped over the wheel of his car after injecting heroin, Wanaque police said Tuesday.

Gabriel Bernard, 24 — who’d been arrested on drug charges in Maywood two months ago — told officers who found him parked on Furnace Avenue just after 9:30 p.m. Sunday that he “was an Uber driver and was resting,” Capt. Kenneth Fackina said.